The thing is, sliding eligibility forward impacts relatively few people, so you might be able to pull it off. Means testing seems like the easy one: everyone hates rich freeloaders.

Undisciplined

the transition is the hard part, but the gov has no problem doing a bit of printing when needed!

Increasing the age is a hard one, though, voters hate it, when France raised the retirement age from 62 to 64 the country basically lost its mind, millions protesting etc.

ahtough in fairness, the French do love a protest

AskSN

econ

How would you unwind the social security/ pension time bomb?

stack_harder

the transition is the hard part, but the gov has no problem doing a bit of printing when needed!

Increasing the age is a hard one, though, voters hate it, when France raised the retirement age from 62 to 64 the country basically lost its mind, millions protesting etc.

ahtough in fairness, the French do love a protest